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Johnny Duhan |
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There Is A Time
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Format: Hardback |
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Category: Memoir |
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ISBN: 0 86322 283 8 |
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Publication Date: Available |
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Description
“The wild spark who fronted Granny’s Intentions has given us the inside story and much more besides. The blood, sweat and tears he shed along the way — the highs and lows of the gigs, and the music business piranhas. It’s all here in There Is a Time by Johnny Duhan; let me recommend it.” Christy Moore
“Johnny Duhan is one of the finest songwriters I know [and] Just Another Town is one of the best albums of the past twenty years, bar none!” John McKenna
This is the vivid, richly human story of one man’s journey into song. In the sixties he was one of the original Irish pop stars. On the road like a 1960s Don Quixote — “my lance a guitar, my horsepower a transit van” — the teenage Johnny Duhan went in search of fame and the girl. It turned out to be a bug-infested, drug-ingested odyssey towards “the big time.” He arrived before long at the realisation that “the deal” was a fraud leading to betrayal and a cul-de-sac.
He fronted a band of innocents called Granny’s Intentions, and after its demise he reincarnated himself as a songsmith. Best known for his works recorded by Christy Moore, Mary Black, Dolores Keane, Mary Coughlan, the Irish Tenors and a host of others, this “fabled songwriter” has mapped out his journey in a trilogy of albums: Just Another Town, Don Quixote and Flame.
His story begins in Limerick with his mother’s breakdown, an event that ended his childhood. A close uncle takes him to the carnival and shows him that the law of gravity can be turned on its head. Then his uncle is jailed for drunken disorder and petty theft, and the world grows heavy again. At fourteen he sets out for Dublin and a Rolling Stones concert, and winds up in a doss house, but he is set on a wavering path to the bright lights. A band is formed, a friend lost, a steady job thrown back in his father’s teeth. |
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